Sentence examples for dreadful shock from inspiring English sources
Her untimely death in 2006 was a dreadful shock, and the dreams of our youth lost focus.
He's spent so long snooping on the general public that it must have been a dreadful shock to the system to have the tables turned.
Anyway, a dreadful shock for Mr Murdoch, as I said when he read these revelations in the Sunday Times, and... hang on a sec, wasn't that the paper at the heart of those secret Chequers discussions?
It was a dreadful, dreadful blow.
They were serious students, the thin one of electrical engineering and the other of architecture, and, far from being unaffected by the accident, they both went into dreadful, guilt-ridden shock, and for weeks afterward they could be seen almost every day standing silently with lowered heads across the lane from Junior's home, just standing there, heads bowed in expiation, waiting for forgiveness.
But so long after the great crash of five years ago, such a dreadful performance will shock many.
The big point here is that shocks, even dreadful ones such as this, sometimes prod governments into policies they were considering but had yet to build the support to put them into action.
Ralph Berry, Bradford Council's executive member for children and young people, said Hamzah's death was a "dreadful tragedy" that had shocked and appalled local people.
When I sought reassurance from Sony.com (something I shouldn't have to do with a $30 Web shopping service in hand), I was shocked by how dreadful that site was.
"We are in a state of shock and disbelief over this dreadful news".
